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While Netflix is chatting up providers about anchoring its app on cable boxes, access to the streaming service's library will be available on the upcoming Samsung Smart Media Player (aka Smart Cable Box). Posted over at ...

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Those who routinely use torrents to illegally download their favorite movies, TV, and music will find themselves with one less website to grab the latest Homeland from. Torrent database IsoHunt is shutting down.

Long term data storage is tricky. Hard discs and magnetic tapes lose their charge, CDs and DVDs are easy to scratch, and forget about punch cards . Now a student at the University of Twente has developed an optical stora...

Hovercrafts are truly amazing vehicles: Whether on land, water, mud or ice, these air-cushioned craft rule the unpaved wilderness. And they were born from a wildly optimistic and experimental era of engineering--as refle...

Mobile phone makers are really going for the gold lately, and some in a more opulent fashion than others. In keeping with the gilded trend, UK provider O2 is giving away an 18-carat gold HTC One to one lucky customer. Ea...

Texting while driving accounts for more and more accidents every year, but there's no clear solution in sight (unless you think these new SMS rest stops will work). New York designer Joey Cofone is proposing another idea...

There’s little doubt at this point that a future update for Google Glass will unveil the ability to take a photo using little more than a blink. In the most recent firmware update pushed to the wearable headset, it’s...

We have seen Nexus 5 leaks coming out of countries around the world. Just in recent days there was a sighting in France and Russia and as of today it looks like Canada. One difference with this latest leak though, instea...

After my wife and I went canoeing up in northern Minnesota a few months ago--on a lake near the town of Ely, where we had gone to visit the giant neutrino detector of the Soudan Underground Mine State Park--I became stra...

As Android updates have gone as of late, there really hasn't been much to get excited about -- not until we break into Kit Kat, anyway. But the rollout of Android 4.3 Jelly Bean to Samsung's former flagship the Galaxy S4...

It would appear that nostalgia is getting the better of at least one of the original designers of the original Grand Theft Auto as Michael Dailly has announced his intent to re-make the original Liberty City. This re-cre...

The Internet Society is currently taking nominations for 2014 inductees to the Internet Hall of Fame. They're searching worldwide for people in three categories: Pioneers, Innovators, and Global Connectors. The nominatio...

The first time you see this latest picture of Saturn, you'll probably think it's fake. The rings are too perfectly round. The swirling surface of the planet is too smooth. The shadows are too sharp. But it's all real, th...

Another day, another Nexus 5 leak. The latest is the first set of what appear to be press images, that come to us by way of Mobile Syrup.

You may have seen this morning's post about the many secret easter eggs that tie Indiana Jones and Star Wars together . And if you haven't, you should! Here you go.

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There's something special about that moment when you discover a new song or artists to love. Now, perhaps as a way to make more of these moments possible, Google is bringing a feature dubbed "I'm feeling lucky radio" to ...

Space may be the final frontier of exploration, but there's plenty of Earth left unmapped, too--from the giant canyon recently discovered beneath Greenland to American waters that have been left largely unexplored. But t...

Seems like everyone's trying to get a piece of the home automation action these days. Question is, however, if pricey catchall systems are really the answer. Smart Power Strip offers a simple, affordable solution, lettin...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Lenovo has supposedly signed a non-disclosure agreement with BlackBerry to take a look at the Canadian company's books. Rumor has it that the Chinese manufacturer is considering a bi...

Lenovo is once again rumored to be considering a bid to acquire BlackBerry, with sources claiming the Chinese company has inked a non-disclosure agreement to dig through the ailing Canadian firm’s financial records. Th...